The CA final exam was topped by Akshay Ramesh Jain from Ahmedabad with 616 marks out of 800
AIR 1 Akshay Jain
It feels really great to get such a score especially when you have studied to get a rank. Chartered Accountancy wasn’t actually my original plan. I wanted to pursue the five-year integrated programme in management at the Indian Institute of Management, Indore. But, I couldn’t score well in the IPMAT due to a lack of preparation time. It was then that one of my uncles who is also a CA suggested that I pursue this. After much deliberation, I went ahead with his suggestion and gave the ICAI Common Proficiency Test (CPT) as well as enrolled myself in the Bachelor of Commerce (B Com) course at Gujarat University.
Ever since I decided to pursue CA, I have put my heart and soul into it. Even with my CPT, I secured All India Rank (AIR) 17 and in intermediate, I secured AIR 1. It is difficult to guess your rank with CA exams, so I wasn’t obviously sure if I secured a top rank or not but I sure did put all my efforts in order to obtain one.
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I haven’t exactly decided as to what I would do but now since the results are declared, I will evaluate my options in the next 10 to 15 days. My personal preference is consulting. I don’t want to start practice as of now, I want to work with the big 4— Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Deloitte, McKinsey or Bain and Company.
In order to get a rank in CA exams, you need to appear for both groups together and you only get four months of preparatory leave from your articleship. I started my articleship in April 2020 with GK Choksi in Ahmedabad and worked there for almost one and a half years, then I switched to HDFC in Hyderabad. During the four months of preparation leave, I studied for nearly 12 to 13 hours a day during the week but with ample breaks in between. I wouldn’t study for too long at a stretch. I would take up one subject per week, then on the weekends would give mock tests for it and then relax with my friends and family. Once the subjects were completed, I began my revision.
Whenever I was overwhelmed, I would take a break to watch something or listen to music. I enjoy watching stand-up comedy videos. I particularly admire Louis CK and Abhishek Upmanyu.
My father is a businessperson and my mother is a homemaker. I have a younger brother who is pursuing engineering. We are originally from Rajasthan but my father migrated here for work before I was born.
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